But somebody needs to draw the line.  The Franken campaign went to court recently demanding that the state turn over the list of abentee voters whose ballots had been rejected so that they could contact them.  Yes.  CONTACT them.  Isn’t our voting system supposed to be anonymous?  Regardless of who you voted for, would you want them or their opponent knowing who you are?  Doesn’t open doors for some really nasty business?

How long will it be before we start hearing stories about the voter who got threatening calls?  And I’m not pointing fingers at Franken or his campaign here.  It’s just as likely to happen no matter who the candidate is.  How I vote is a private matter.  There is no reason for the candidates to have any of that information.  If my ballot is so indecipherable as to make who I voted for unknowable, then I should have been better about making my vote.

I don’t live in Minnesota, so I don’t have much of an opinion on who should win this race. I just thought it was a bit off putting when you have a candidate who is running for what is a very serious position injecting comedy into the campaign. Does Al Franken take it seriously?